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Teaching And Learning For This Moment: How A Trauma Informed Lens Can Guide Our Praxis, Cinzia Pica-Smith, Christian Scannell

Human Services and Rehabilitation Studies Department Faculty Works

In this time of COVID-19, continued and relentless violence against BIPOC, organized resistance by many young people, and violent institutionalized attempts to suppress resistance, demonstrations and social change movements, what should educators be thinking about as we return to our college classrooms? In this short piece, we share our thinking and experience about our students’ psycho-social needs and our belief that faculty must be focused both on students’ and faculty’s socio-political context and students’ and faculty’s emotional wellbeing as we think about teaching and learning for this moment.

Review Of The Story Of Greece And Rome By Tony Spawforth, Barry Knowlton

History Department Faculty Works

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Social Validity Of A School-Home Note Intervention For Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Independent Stakeholder Perspectives, Samantha E. Goldman, Maria P. Mello

Education Department Faculty Works

High quality communication between school and home is reported to be highly valued by parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, they remain dissatisfied with school-home communication and limited empirical research has addressed this topic. One study that used a school-home note with parent-provided, home-based reinforcement to reduce child off-task behavior showed differential results for some students, but high social validity according to parent and teacher participants. In this study we evaluated the social validity of this school-home note intervention from the perspective of other parents of children with ASD—outside consumers who did participate directly in the intervention. …

Developing Special Education Advocates: What Changes During An Advocacy Training Program?, Samantha E. Goldman, Brittney L. Goscicki, Meghan M. Burke, Robert M. Hodapp

Education Department Faculty Works

Background: Special education advocacy trainings, such as the Volunteer Advocacy Project (VAP), have the goal of training advocates who can eventually support families in accessing needed services for students with disabilities. In addition to the training goal of increasing participants' special education knowledge and advocacy comfort, it is unknown if the VAP improves other participant outcomes related to later advocacy.

Specific Aims: In this study, we asked: (1) Do VAP participants improve from pre‐ to post‐test on knowledge and advocacy comfort, as well as on role identity, involvement in the disability community, and empowerment?; (2) Do participants' roles and levels …

Mindset Matters: Using Research-Based Strategies To Enhance Middle-School Math Instruction, Catherine Harvey

Honors Theses

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The Challenges Of American Education Reform: The Common Core Standards For School Mathematics, Evan Sperlinga

Honors Theses

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A Review Of Trauma In Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Orsolina O'Neill

Honors Theses

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Young Adult Financial Literacy And Its Underlying Factors, Emily Meyers

Honors Theses

This thesis discusses the current state of financial education and young adult financial literacy in the United States. Financial literacy is the level of personal finance knowledge an individual requires to make beneficial financial decisions. The United States faces a financial literacy crisis in young adults evidenced by failing scores of assessments administered by the Jump$tart Coalition, a leader in researching financial literacy in young adults. This thesis presents research and analysis of personal finance assessment scores from students of Franklin High School, Massachusetts. Assessments were administered to personal finance, business, and history students. The majority of students failed the …

Executive Functions: The Key To Growth In Elementary School Students, Kelly Martin

Honors Theses

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Responding To An Increasingly Polylingual Society: An American Bilingual School, Madeleine Iassogna

Honors Theses

Despite the importance of English as an international language, "there is an emerging consensus among leaders in business and politics, teachers, scientists, and community members that proficiency in English is not sufficient to meet the nation's needs in a shrinking world" (Commission on Language Learning, 2016, p. 3-4). The causes for this lack of multicultural lingual diversity in the US today include an educational framework based on assimilation and a lack of focus on multiculturalism and interculturalism. This problematic dynamic has led to little focus on foreign language education. The literature review will therefore focus on this sociocultural contextualization of …